'Smash the bars': incarceration and emancipation in the theatrical cages of the modernist avant-garde

Warden, Claire
(2012)
'Smash the bars': incarceration and emancipation in the theatrical cages of the modernist avant-garde.
In: Material Modernisms: European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies (EAM), 7-9 September 2012, University of Kent.

Abstract

This paper discusses theatrical cages as a central modernist motif and particularly with reference to three British plays: London Hammer and Sickle Group's 'Meerut', Stephen Spender's 'Trial of a Judge' and Ewan MacColl's 'The Other Animals'. The aim is to present these cages as multi-layered motifs of meaning, marking a distinct connection with experiments on the Continent.

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This paper discusses theatrical cages as a central modernist motif and particularly with reference to three British plays: London Hammer and Sickle Group's 'Meerut', Stephen Spender's 'Trial of a Judge' and Ewan MacColl's 'The Other Animals'. The aim is to present these cages as multi-layered motifs of meaning, marking a distinct connection with experiments on the Continent.